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When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

AI use can lead to burnout - but how you use it really matters.

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BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI

Buzzfeed pivoted to AI - and now finds itself circling the drain.

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Good vibes, bad vendors

AI coding works now. Here's how to think about it.

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Hiring in an era of fake candidates, real scams and AI slop

"Red flags that both job seekers and employers should watch for, in an era of AI slop and application scams."

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The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Software Factory

"I’ve now seen dozens of companies struggling to put AI to work writing code, and each one has moved through five clear tiers of automation. That felt familiar."

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2025: The year in LLMs

Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.

Future of News

Is the article dead?

Personalization is coming to journalism. The question is: who controls it?

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Trump Signs Executive Order To Combat State AI Regulation

"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday intended to limit state regulation of artificial intelligence." At the same time, states are watering theirs down.

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What Happens After the Hype? Lessons from Mobile Internet’s Long Road to Success

"The question isn’t whether the current AI investment cycle will face a reckoning. It’s what form that reckoning takes — and what comes after."

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This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services

AI at scale isn't scaling.

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Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI Instead of Real People, and It’s Going About as Well as You’d Expect

"Obviously, any campaign that used only that AI-generated data would miss the mark — instead of looking at the views of real respondents, it would be looking at a funhouse mirror reflection of a demographic cooked up by a language model with no access to actual data."

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Evaluating AI

How to think about vendors, technology, and power